Speaker Profile
Robert Maclaren

Robert Maclaren PharmD, FCCM, FCCP

Pharmacy and Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Connect with the speaker?

Robert MacLaren, Pharm.D. is a professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Colorado, clinical pharmacist in the medical ICU at the University of Colorado Hospital, and co-director of the critical care pharmacy residency and fellowship programs. Dr. MacLaren completed his undergraduate degree in pharmacy at the University of British Columbia, earned his Pharm.D. degree at the University of Utah, completed a critical care specialty residency at the University of Tennessee / Baptist Memorial Hospital, and recently received his MPH degree at the University of Colorado with a focus on policy. He worked for several years as a critical care specialist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Canada before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1999. Dr. MacLaren has over eighty peer reviewed publications relating to the pharmacologic and nutritional therapies of critically ill patients and has secured over $750,000 in grant funding to support various research initiatives. His primary research foci surround gastrointestinal disturbances of the critically ill, optimizing patient comfort in the ICU, and demonstrating the value of clinical pharmacy services. He has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings. He is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the Society of Critical Care Medicine and has served both organizations as chair or member of several committees.
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES (Speaking, Spoken, and Authored)